Crumbs; refuse. (Low German, ort—i.e. what is left after eating.)
I shall not eat your orts—i.e. your leavings.
“Let him have time a beggar’s orts to crave.”
Shakespeare: Rape of Lucrece.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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